Improvement in fire-kindlers



a. B. WHITZEL.

FIRE-KINDLER.

Patented Dec. 19, 1876.

lie 185,413.

THE GRAPHIC CD.N.Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSEL B. WHITZEL, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN SHORT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FlRE-KINDLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,413, dated December 19, 1876 application filed November 24, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUssEL B. WHITZEL, of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Kindler, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing, and named Eureka Fire-Kindler.

My invention consists in sawing a block of wood, provided with grooves or air-holes of a peculiar character, which block is dipped in rosin or any other suitable article for the purpose set forth.

Block A is composed of wood of any convenient size and thickness, into which grooves 

